Abstract: Being essential in animation creation, colorizing anime line drawings is usually a tedious and time-consuming manual task. Reference-based line drawing colorization provides an intuitive way ...

"I want to use 3D backgrounds, but breaking them down into assets is a hassle..." Even if you create backgrounds in Blender, you have to prepare line art, shadows, depth, and masks separately to use ...

Abstract: This research explores the fusion of creative ingenuity and machine learning, utilizing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to revolutionize anime character creation. Collaborating with ...

US President Donald Trump is facing backlash over his unauthorized use of imagery from popular anime characters. Nearly 20,000 Japanese people have signed a petition launched in response to a social ...